DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 2315Z October 5, 2015
Currently: Mississippi Valley/Southeast Texas: Multiple fires across the eastern Arkansas, southeast Missouri and northwest Mississippi are producing light to moderate smoke. The larger fires in southeast Texas are emitting smoke across the region and into the Gulf of Mexico. From Earlier Today SMOKE: Western US: A small patch of thin smoke was visible in morning GOES imagery over and just off the coasts of northwest California and southwest Oregon. This remnant smoke is from fires that have been burning in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana for the past several days which has been pulled southward along the Pacific Coast by the large scale upper trough over the West. Additional small smoke plumes are analyzed close to the fire sources this morning, mostly in northern Idaho. UNKNOWN AEROSOL: Gulf of Mexico/Florida Straits: An unknown aerosol can be seen stretching west to east across the southern Gulf of Mexico from south of Brownsville, TX east-southeast towards the Yucatan Peninsula east-northeast across the Florida Keys, southern Florida, and the far northern Bahamas. This aerosol is being pulled east by a large upper low off the coast of the Southeast US. J Kibler THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE..TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS. AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE ALSO DESCRIBED. USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE FIRE IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE: JPEG: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/land/hms.html GIS: http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm KML: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/kml.html ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov